In times gone-by, we used to host "office hours" on the WMUK channel on irc.
For anybody not familiar with it, our channel is at irc://freenode/wikimedia-uk For anybody not familiar with irc, it requies a client, like mirc or a browser plugin like chatzilla. It allows large numbers of participants, is real-time chat, and gives a lot of control over the channel. It might be considered old technology now, but may be worth a thought. -- Rexx > On 19 August 2016 at 19:53 John Lubbock <john.lubb...@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote: > > > Hello all, I've been thinking about how WMUK can communicate better with > our community and let Wikimedians communicate with each other. I've heard > from some community members that they were a little disappointed that > people were no longer using the Water Cooler page for discussions. > > I'd like to propose some different options and ask if you have any other > suggestions about how you'd like to communicate with us and others in the > community. So I've put a poll on Twitter > <https://twitter.com/wikimediauk/status/766703544275767297> with some > options for communications channels. I couldn't put more than four options, > so I chose Facebook, the Water Cooler, Slack and the Mailing List. > > I'd really appreciate if you could take the time to vote which one you'd > prefer or reply here or to the Tweet with any other suggestions for how > you'd like to communicate with us. > > What I'm really keen to communicate are the opportunities for our community > to engage with us, propose projects, receive funding and other assistance > from WMUK. To this end, it would be good to have an open channel or > discussion group of some kind where we can respond to your ideas and allow > you to ask us questions about our work. We'd like to be as open as the > knowledge we promote, so please let us know your views about how we can do > that better. > > Have a great weekend! > > John Lubbock > Communications Coordinator > Wikimedia UK > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > wikimediau...@wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk
